AmberPoint Announces Availability of Management Pack for Enhanced SOA Management with Microsoft Operations Manager 2005

Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) Management Leader Extends Web Services Capabilities of MOM 2005

Oakland, California, November 16, 2004 -- AmberPoint, the leading provider of management software for service-oriented architectures, today announced the availability of the AmberPoint Management Pack for Microsoft Operations Manager (MOM) 2005, Microsoft’s enterprise monitoring, management and security solution. AmberPoint Management Pack for MOM 2005 enhances the integration between AmberPoint’s industry-leading SOA management solutions and MOM 2005. The management pack module provides customers of both companies with end-to-end management of heterogeneous service-oriented environments.

“We’ve worked closely with AmberPoint through the Dynamic Systems Initiative to help create advanced management capabilities that will allow our mutual customers to more easily adopt, manage and maximize the value of service-oriented architectures,” said David Hamilton, director of the Windows and Enterprise Management division, Microsoft Corp. “AmberPoint’s solutions are a great complement to MOM 2005 for customers who need a best-of-breed solution for managing SOAs.”

AmberPoint Management Pack for MOM 2005 offers greater control over the operational health of Web services applications and allows enterprises to optimize the business value of SOAs. By leveraging the MOM Connector Framework, AmberPoint’s Management Pack allows AmberPoint solutions to communicate bi-directionally with MOM 2005. By taking advantage of MOM 2005’s awareness of the IT infrastructure and combining AmberPoint’s granular information on Web services running in both the Microsoft .NET Framework and on J2EE platforms, customers achieve holistic, end-to-end visibility and control of the entire SOA environment.

“We’re pleased to continue our work with Microsoft and extend our integration with MOM 2005,” said Gary Rinedollar, vice president of Business Development at AmberPoint. “As today’s SOAs become more complex and heterogeneous, enterprises are increasingly requiring end-to-end visibility and automated management across all their systems. The combination of AmberPoint and MOM 2005 gives customers the advanced capabilities they need to implement production-ready Web services, maintain service levels and get the most business value from of their SOAs.”

AmberPoint Management Pack for MOM 2005 connects AmberPoint’s leading SOA management solutions with MOM 2005. The combination of AmberPoint and MOM 2005 provides comprehensive management capabilities, including:

• Performance monitoring


• Availability monitoring


• Authorization and access monitoring


• Dynamic resource allocation based on business relevance


• Heterogeneous Web services monitoring


• End-to-end monitoring

Availability
AmberPoint Management Pack for MOM 2005 is available today.

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